Physical Intelligence Quotes

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

I think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.

The hands are the instruments of man’s intelligence.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Think with your whole body.

Your body - or my body - is just kind of stupid. Like, your body doesn't know whether you're acting something because it's happening or whether you're acting it because it's in the script.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies.

There's a lot of intelligence in the hands.When you pick up a shovel, the hands know what to do. The same thing's true of sitting at the piano.

We should learn to think with our fingers.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

It is a misconception to think that during evolution humans sacrificed physical skill in exchange for intelligence: wielding one's body is a mental activity.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

I think, as human beings, we at times overvalue the intellect and we undermine the body. I don't mean a body externally and the shape of a body. I mean the intelligence of a body, the memories that a body can store, how a body feels emotion, and how a body processes emotion.